The starry night shone brightly as Tyrell held Sienna in his embrace.
"Almost..." Tyrell smiled at Sienna's cheeky question, and then his smile started to freeze on his lips, changing into a worried grin. The grim reality came to him like a bolt of lightning. He felt his body freeze, and his heart shrank into a small, shivering cold stone." She called the dragon!" His mind exploded in brutal realization.
"Sienna, what you said!"Tyrell stood pale...He changed into White Tiger immediately."Climb on. We are going to Sarcos right now! It is not that far. We have to hide you!"Tyrell growled and started to run with Sienna clenching onto his back, still thinking of what she actually did till her tired memory made it crystal clear."Auch! The dragon word! Hupsy! I was just so distracted I totally forgot..." she sighed in her mind feeling really stupid and reckless. She tried not to think of it because the ride on Tyrell was quite bumpy. Sienna had to hold onto his White Tiger for her dear life because he was running as fast as in the arena before...
" Will the dragon come and kill me now?"Sienna's dark thoughts invaded her mind again as Tyrell was running through the cold forest. Luckily the leaves were off the bare trees and long grasses went flat and wet during moist autumn, so was much easier to travel for them....
The Tyrell ran the straight road to Crystal City even faster, he had to pass around the Crystal City Gate, to turn the way to Sand City when they heard the loud horn sound with roars and screams.
The White Tiger ran to hide with his precious load and tried to sneak around the bushed corners when Sienna saw a fairytale scene in front of her! The group of huge black dragons landed in front of the Crystal City Gate...
"How can they be here so soon!"Tyrell growled in shock as he tried to pass his Crystal City and save Sienna at any cost. He had to sneak almost behind their backs."Wait."Sienna whispered," Where are you going? We have to help them! Look!!!"
The White Tiger stood motionless as he watched the big black dragon talking to Captain Bran. The brave Sea Eagle was responsible for the Crystal City and stood on the top of the Crystal City wall to negotiate.
"I'm Captain Bran, presently in command of Crystal City. What do you want Dragon King?"He asked firmly.
"Your Queen with golden hair."The dragon chortled.
"She is not in here..." Bran noted."You will need to go to Sand City." he decided to send the dragon to Sarcos, far away from Sienna.
"I can feel she is close here." I will set your City on flames and find her myself!" the dragon growled in displeasure. Sienna felt as White Tiger's muscles flexed. He was the King and he was not there to protect his people!
"She is not here!" Bran said with an expression of ready to die on his face.
"Aha...Then we burn you just for fun!" the dragon saw the Captain did not lie."That will teach all you beasts which refuse to give me what is mine." he laughed wickedly.
"If you burn the whole Crystal City nobody will be able to convey your message. It will look like a cooking accident."Bran said coldly." Our Queen is an expert on those, so there will be no fame for you."He noted pragmatically. He was buying the time to get weapons ready.
"I will let you live then. You can fly off!"The dragon grinned.
"I'm responsible for this City. I will fight!"Bran noted.
"We have to go there!"Sienna whispered to Tyrell.
"No, you are the most important."Tyrell shook his head."Sarcos will help me after I drop you to Sand City." he tried to ease her and started to move sleekly.
"No, they will burn everything till then. It is too late," Sienna shook her head because she felt Tyrell was hiding the grim truth. She knew it would take too long to reach Sand City. Sienna saw that the dragons would destroy Crystal City in minutes...not hours...They were not ready for them!
"Tyrell, we need to negotiate..."Sienna whispered firmly.
Sienna watched in horror as one of the dragons fired up the front of stone Crystal City Walls and changed them to glass. Bran ordered the harpunes to be shot and the longbows, but it only broke at the smooth dragon scales and did not harm them at all! The strong stone walls Tyrell was working so hard on were shattering as a glass of water under their strong attack. The dragons were just playing around and Sienna saw they could totally burn the Crystal City from the sky if they wanted...
"Stop Tyrell."Sienna bit her lips.
"He will kill you..."Tyrell shook his tiger head. He was getting desperate, but he would not exchange Sienna for anything.
"There is no choice...!"Sienna shook her head as she watched the huge dragon lift over the city on his huge black wings. "Dragon King..." she whispered.
Tyrell watched as the big Black Dragon in the air turned his head and roared. He twisted his body in the air seamlessly as he locked his golden eyes with Sienna. Only the Dragon King could hear her words because he had the gift of hearing...
The dragons stopped attacking the city and turned after their King as a deadly flock.
"What you did, my love," Tyrell felt dead inside. He changed into his human form and hugged Sienna's waist tightly. He took his sword in one hand and waited for the Dragon King to come closer.
"We need to save the City and you need to live to fight another day. I will go with him, I do not think he came all the way here just to burn me to ashes." Sienna touched his hand with the sword and pushed it down." And you send for Sarcos, hm?" She whispered to him firmly.
Tyrell bit his lips. His mind was screaming in sheer craziness but he knew she was right. If they do not negotiate the dragons will destroy Crystal City and take Sienna anyway. He was not a match for that many dragons and he dreaded it! Sienna pressed his hands trying to ease him as they watched the huge black monster of a dragon land in front of them...
"Ahh.The Tiger King and his beautiful golden hair Queen."The dragon chortled and tilted its head curiously. His voice sounded booming and otherwordly.
Sienna held onto Tyrell's hand. She felt her heart beating wildly with excitement. She was more in awe to see the live dragon so close than scared! Besides he was definitely not so scary like her Crystal Scorpion at all! He was beautiful! It seemed that Sienna's level of scary definition was moved a few levels to the bravery side... The Black Dragon was covered in glistening black scales, he had a robust neck, a strong muscular body and four legs with two leathery wings. On his head were six horns, two bigger and two sets of smaller ones. His golden eyes had flames in them but looked intelligent.
Sienna watched him with big eyes feeling the fierce presence of this magical creature when he suddenly started to shift into a man. He was tall and burly, dressed in blacked scaled armour. His face was symmetric, he looked like a man in his forties, strong and ruthless. He looked more formidable than Tyrell because his eyes showed no kindness. He was cold, determined and cruel. He seemed like a brute warrior. His sharp eyes were piercing Sienna's soul, she felt a knot in her stomach and a shiver in her spine. The man looked more dangerous than his dragon! Sienna looked into his golden eyes and behind the stern facade she felt that he was somehow sad.
"I heard you called for me...".The Dragon King spoke in a clear manly voice.
His face was serious with no emotion in it.
"Sure I did. I wanted to talk to you. We like to negotiate. Please, do not destroy my city needlessly."She smiled gently at him.
"I was looking for you..."The Dragon King nodded firmly.
"Well, it is nice to meet you and I'm here and happy to help. So tell me what do you need help with?" Sienna asked sweetly.
"I will show it to you. In my Kingdom. Come!" he stretched his hand to her...
"What about my city? Will you leave it alone?"Sienna asked sweetly.
"Sure, I came to pick you up," The Dragon King said coldly.
"Did you just give me your word of the King?" Sienna asked politely just to make sure..
"Yes...I have a more important matter to attend to than a little Tiger City..." he glanced at Tyrell.
"Let me farewell my mate then."Sienna smiled and kissed Tyrell goodbye."I love you my tiger. Stay strong and take care of our people." she hugged him and petted his long white hair for a second. Then she turned around and took the Dragon King's hand...
His hand was warm and hard, covered in scaled armoured gloves. Sienna rather held it tightly, she did not want him to press her hand instead and crush her fingers by accident. She needed her hands to paint and sew!
The Dragon King kept his human form. He walked Sienna to another black dragon, who crouched to the ground. The Dragon King lifted Sienna by her waist to sit her into a big leather saddle on it and she realized that he really came just to pick her up.
"The fly is long and fast, you will be safer if I hold you, my Queen," The Dragon King noted.
"You might call me Sienna."She said quietly. The Dragon King sat behind Sienna holding her waist tightly. Sienna felt his armoured hand like a ring of steel holding her in but was kind of happy she didn't need to ride on the dragon by herself. She had never flown on the dragon before!
Tyrell watched his beloved Queen sitting on the black dragon in another man's embrace and felt like a huge failure...He bit his lips bitterly but remembered that Sienna was doing this for him, for all of them. To survive and fight another day!
"Take care of your city, tiger!"The Dragon King smirked at Tyrell satirically and his dragon lifted into the air. All the dragons lifted to follow their King!
Sienna turned her head a little to see the Crystal City once more, but it was like a tiny dot under her feet and a black dragon's belly.
Sienna was happy that the Dragon King kept his promise and the dragons left the city alone.
Sienna felt the strong wind the dragon created as he slapped his wings in the night sky. The stars shone still brightly and she felt as in a fairytale."I'm flying on the dragon with the Dragon King himself... I hope it will be not the experience to die for!"She thought and bit her lips.